In the Indian epic Ramayana, the father of Sita and father-in-law of Rama. In later Vedic texts, Janaka is stated to be a ruler of Videha, a region corresponding to parts of present-day Bihar and Nepal, and historians suggest a possibility of him having been a historical figure who may have lived and ruled between the ninth and seventh centuries BCE.
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Siddhartha Gautama (b., d. likely fifth century BCE), most commonly known by the epithet ‘Buddha’ (Pali, ‘awakened one’), was a…
A Vaishnava sect that emerged prominently in southern India during the late medieval period. Vishnu and his consort Sri are…
Major deity in Hinduism and principal god of its largest sect, Vaishnavism. The name derives from the Sanskrit root vish…
It is a belief system that attributes a spiritual essence to plants, animals and inanimate objects.
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A philosophical concept in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, and a spiritual principle of cause and effect wherein the actions…
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A Tantric master in Vajrayana Buddhism considered to have disseminated Vajrayana in Tibet between c. eighth and ninth centuries CE.…